Two sisters entered the world prematurely one October night last year by emergency caesarean section. Staff at the Chinese hospital swaddled them in white, laying them in incubators.
The twins ...
Powerful gene-editing tools have the potential to heal—or to harm. Now there’s a race to develop the antidote to the next bioweapon.
In September 2016, Jennifer Doudna called a new ...
A fourth U.S. patent covering CRISPR-Cas9 claims was granted today to the Regents of the University of California (UC), the University of Vienna, and CRISPR pioneer Emmanuelle Charpentier, PhD, ...
Scientist He Jiankui showed the world how human embryo editing is relatively easy to do but incredibly difficult to do well. Going against the consensus in the scientific community ...
Jennifer Doudna learned by email that a scientist in China had used the blockbuster gene-editing tool she'd helped invent to reportedly edit the DNA of a pair of twin baby ...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley for a discussion of her intellectual odyssey that led to the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary tool for ...
Prof Jennifer Doudna, one of the pioneers of Crispr-Cas9 gene editing, explains how this revolutionary discovery enables precise changes to our DNA, which can be used to correct mutations ...
A group of prominent scientists and bioethicists is calling for a global moratorium on any new attempts to bring gene-edited babies into the world.
"We call for a global moratorium ...
UC Berkeley announced Tuesday it received a patent for a single-molecule guide RNA that can be used with the Cas-9 enzyme by the gene-editing tool CRISPR in plants, bacteria ...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a new CRISPR-Cas9 patent covering the use of one or multiple single guide RNAs in any cell type to the ...
Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna worked in an obscure area of biology — how bacteria fight viral infections — when she helped make a discovery that could change life on ...
CRISPR Cas9 has been described as the greatest biological breakthrough in decades. The hopes resting on this gene editing technology are immense - this week a Swiss drug company ...
No one needs to remind Jennifer Doudna about the power of CRISPR, the precision genome-editing technology she codeveloped. CRISPR “gives us a way to ultimately control the evolution of any ...
There certainly was reason for celebration at UC Berkeley on Feb. 8, when the U.S. patent office announced it would award UC a key patent for CRISPR, a groundbreaking technology ...
It has taken nearly six years, detours for bitter legal challenges, and tens of millions of dollars in legal fees, but the foundational CRISPR-Cas9 patent for which the University ...
The battle between university powerhouses over who gets the credit for inventing the breakthrough gene-editing technology CRISPR could heat up again, according to a lawyer for the University of ...
The University of California (UC) has received good news on a patent for the invention of the genome editor known as CRISPR—and it likely moves a fierce legal war ...
The University of California, Berkeley, and its partners in developing CRISPR gene editing will receive the patent at the heart of an intellectual property dispute between the Berkeley team ...
(Reuters) - The University of California will soon be granted a potentially valuable patent on the revolutionary gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, according to a document filed by the ...
In August 2012, University of California, Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna and colleagues published an article in the journal Science titled “A Programmable Dual-RNA—Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity.” Though the ...
Some U.S. researchers knew of a Chinese scientist’s intentions to implant edited embryos but were unable to stop him. Now scientific institutions are trying to devise global safeguards.
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In 2019, we can expect accelerating scientific research and practical advances using CRISPR-Cas9—a tool that allows scientists to easily change an organism’s DNA—towards cures for genetic diseases, ...
Sometimes the future arrives in waves, advancing abruptly and then withdrawing. Last week, a Chinese researcher named He Jiankui announced that he had successfully altered the genetic code of ...
Speaking at a genome summit in Hong Kong, He Jiankui defended his claim that he created the world's first gene-edited babies using CRISPR. The tool's co-inventor, Jennifer Doudna, shares ...
Jennifer Doudna @doudna_lab, the co-inventor of CRISPR says she’s “horrified” and "disgusted" with how her work has been used to create gene-edited babies #CRISPRBabies #GeneEditSummit pic.twitter.com/WULlCT8zzv
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A Chinese researcher’s claim that he successfully modified the genes of human embryos may force the country to make a stark choice about the future of its burgeoning biotechnology ...
Last year, Jennifer Doudna, one of the pioneers of the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR, said, “I’ve mentally prepared myself for the day when I open my inbox or answer my ...
In the growing field of personalized cell and gene therapies, supporting systems and supply chains need to be taken as seriously as the science. Today, two leaders in cell ...
A deep look at how technology plays a role in the increasingly common approach of personalizing treatments for individuals. Panelists include Jay Shendure, a professor of genome sciences at the ...
Vineti, Inc., the leading digital traceability and orchestration solution for cell and gene therapies, and World Courier, a part of AmerisourceBergen and a global leader in specialty logistics, today ...
Vineti Inc. and Deloitte have struck a deal aimed at making complex cell- and gene-therapy procedures more transparent.
Drug developers are developing a growing number of cell and gene therapies. ...
The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, given every other year by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Kavli Foundaion, was awarded this year to Jennifer Doudna and ...
What would biohacking, entrepreneurship and CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing mean for an unregulated IVF industry?
Using CRISPR to gene edit human embryos has already been done for research, but so far ...
This story begins nearly four billion years ago, when the Earth was just another rock in just another solar system. In a pool of sludge on that rock, something astonishing ...
Having a fast and easy way to cut out and replace genes could revolutionise areas of biology as diverse as medicine and agriculture. And the discovery of the gene ...
Sarah Montague speaks to biochemist Jennifer Doudna. Crispr Cas9 has been described as the greatest biological breakthrough in decades. It is a gene editing tool and the hopes that ...
Episode two of Vox’s Netflix show Explained tackles designer DNA.
Scientific feat or terrifying social experiment?
Specialists in the field discuss the high stakes and ethical controversies of gene editing.
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At the age of 12, Jennifer Doudna read James Watson’s The Double Helix and got hooked on science in general and genetics in particular. Four decades later, she is a molecular ...
In this web exclusive, biochemist Jennifer Doudna talks with Mo Rocca about how her childhood curiosity was nourished - by books and by the natural world around her growing ...
Scientists are harnessing the same technology behind the powerful gene-editing tool CRISPR to develop cheap devices that can quickly diagnose infections. These systems, described in new research, have the ...
